Smoker&#39;s pipe



Jul 8, 1941. J, T, WHITE 2,248,259

SMOKER S PIPE Filed Aug. 10. 1939 INVENTOR.

M ATTORNEY.

Patented July 8, 1941 rarsnr orrlce SMQKERS PIPE Jesse '1. White, Holmes, N. Y. Application August 10, 1939, Serial No. 289,347

Y free flow of air from the annular passage 2| into 4 Claims.

This invention relates to smokers pipes and is herein illustrated as embodied in a briar pipe having a usual type of removable mouth piece.

One of the objectives in satisfactory smoking for many smokers is the obtaining of a cool smoke, but the ideal sought for has never been reached. Another sought for object is an easily cleaned pipe, but these two objects have hitherto proved incompatible in practice partly because of the fragile or complicated construction hitherto deemed essential in order to get the needed parts into the restricted limits of a standard smokers pipe.

According to the present invention as herein illustrated an easily removable tube is provided around which circulates cooling air, while an internal core separates the hollow of the tube into passages in which smoke passes back and forth with the result that the foregoing difficulties and objections are overcome, and a smokers pipe is provided which is rugged in structure, simple in design, cheap to build, easily dismounted to clean and effective in cooling.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a pipe embodying one form of the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a side View of the internal tube.

Figure 4 is a side view of the core.

Figure 5 is a bottom view of the same.

Figure 6 shows a hook for ready removal of the tube.

In the form shown the mouthpiece ID of the pipe is rabbetted at II so that it slips into the usual bore I2 of the pipe-stem I3 which terminates at the side opening I4 at the bottom of the bowl I5.

In the form shown the bore I2 is uniform throughout the stem I3 and contains an aluminum tube It having an end annular boss II which abuts against the end I8 of the mouth-piece I and a second end annular boss I9 which centers the tube I6 in the side opening it at the bottom of the bowl I5.

When the pipe is thus smoked the smoke draws in smoke through the tube I6, and causes some of the tobacco in the bowl I to be burned by air entering a bottom opening 20 in the mouth-piece end of the stem I3 and flowing in the annular passage 2| between the tube It and the inner surface of the bore I2 of the stem I3. The annular boss I9 is shown flat at 22 permitting the the bowl I5. Thus air entering the passage 2I cools the smoke within the tube I6, and, in the form disclosed does this efficiently, because the tube I6 illustrated is made of aluminum and may be as thin as paper since no strain comes upon it.

Usually the pipe also includes a core 23 which is shown in the form of an aluminum rod fitting closely within the tube I6 but easily slidable therein. The core is shown as ground out to form three channels or passages 24, 25, 26, through which the smoke is drawn as follows:

The smoke enters the bottom channel 25 through an opening 21 drilled in the solid end 28 of the core, said opening delivering the smoke only into the channel 25, and the smoke flows toward the mouthpiece in the channel, which is closed by the tube wall I6. The channel 25 terminates about a half inch from the butt end I8, and one side is cut away there at 29 so the smoke flows through the cut 29 into the channel 24. In the channel 24 the smoke flows toward the bowl until it reaches the base of the annular boss I9, where it flows through a cut 30 into the channel 26 which carries it out the end of the tube I6, into the mouthpiece II]. The entrance of the channel 26 into the mouthpiece I0 is shown as a centrally drilled opening 3| in the end of the core, thus enabling the circular wall of the core to serve as a firm mounting for the core in the mouthpiece I0, seating itself against a rabbet face 32. In the form shown the core is easily removed from the mouthpiece III as for cleaning.

Just outside the mouthpiece an opening 33 is drilled through the bottom of the channel 26, into a pocket 34 hollowed out of the core and separated from the cut 29 by a solid wall 35 left in the metal. This pocket 34 forms a temporary receptacle for any moisture condensing or flowing into the channel 26.

The core described is made of aluminum thus forming a continuation of the metal tube or sleeve as an excellent heat conductor to abstract heat from the smoke, and forming a closed channel for each channel 24, 25, 26.

To enable the tube I6 to be readily removed, it is shown as provided with an opening 36 adapted to be caught by the turned up end 31 of a hook 38 which conveniently fits the smokers finger at 39. Since the opening 36 is within the annular boss I! and is closed by the wall of the stem I3, the opening may be safely a perforation as shown.

Having thus described one embodiment of the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A smokers pipe having a bowl in which tobacco burns, a hollow stem ending in a mouthpiece, a tube within the hollow stem to form an annular channel around said tube, an annular boss supporting the tube at the mouthpiece, a second annular boss at the bowl adapted to let air pass from the annular channel in the stem into the bowl, and a core removably slidable in the tube and providing a channel for leading smoke out of the bowl towards the mouthpiece, a second channel leading back to near the bowl, and a third channel leading to the mouthpiece.

2. A smokers pipe having a bowl in which tobacco burns, a hollow stem ending in a mouthpiece, a tube within the hollow stem to form an annular channel around said tube, an annular boss supporting the tube at the mouthpiece, a second annular boss at the bowl adapted to let air pass from the annular channel in the stem into the bowl, and an aluminum core removably slidable in the tube and providing a channel for leading smoke out of the bowl towards the mouthpiece, a second channel leading back to near the bowl, and a third channel to the mouthpiece.

3. A smokers pipe having a bowl in which tobacco burns, a hollow stem ending in a mouth-- piece, a tube within the hollow stem to form an annular channel around said tube, an annular boss supporting the tube at the mouthpiece, a second annular boss at the bowl adapted to let air pass from the annular channel in the stem into the bowl, and a core removably slidable in the tube and removably mounted on the mouthpiece and providing a channel for leading smoke out of the bowl towards the mouthpiece, a second channel leading back to near the bowl, and a third channel to the mouthpiece.

4. A smokers pipe having a bowl in which tobacco burns, a hollow stem ending in a mouthpiece, a tube within the hollow stem to form an annular channel around said stem, an annular boss supporting the tube at the mouthpiece and including an opening for removing it, a second annular boss at the bowl adapted to let air pass from the annular channel in the stem into the bowl, and a core removably slidable in the tube and providing a channel for leading smok out of the bowl towards the mouthpiece, a second channel leading back to near the bowl, and a third channel to the mouthpiece.

JESSE T. WHITE. 

